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/ The Clash / Combat Rock (1982) / Straight to Hell guitar tab

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From: ppalmer@ironwood.cray.com (Pete Palmer)

Straight to Hell
The Clash
Album: Combat Rock

This is how I play it.  Improvements, comments, flames always welcome.
Lrics c/o uwp


Intro: Just these chords: D - - - - - - - - - - - A G - - - - - - -

D     A    G
5-----5----3------------------------------------------------------------
7-----5----3------------------------------------------------------------
7-----6----4------------------------------------------------------------
7-----7----5------------------------------------------------------------
5-----7----5------------------------------------------------------------
------5----3-----------------------------------------------------------

Play the following riff throughout the song where you see the D to G
chord sequence.  Keep in mind that they change octaves with the different
effects.  Bring 'er down an octave and you have a lot of the bass line.

         D                        G
--------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------5---3-3------5---3-3-------------
---------4----2-2-----4---2-2---------------------------------------
0-2-4-2--------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------

and/or
         D                         G
---------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------
---------4----2-2-----4---2-2----------------------------------------
0-2-4-2----------------------------2---0-0------2---0-0---------------
---------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Then, for all of the Bm to G passages, use this for the lead:

Bm         G
7--5--------------------------------------------------------------------
------8--7--8--7--5-----------------------------------------------------
---------------------7-------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------------

Bm                     G
If you can play on the fiddle

Bm                            G
How's about a British jig and reel?

D
Speaking King's English in quotation

G
As railhead towns feel the steel mills rust

D
water froze in the

G
generation

Bm              G
Clear as winter ice

Bm               G
This is your paradise

               D
There ain't no need for ya

               G
There ain't no need for ya

               D
Go straight to hell boys

               G
Go straight to hell boys

Bm                G
Y'wanna join in a chorus
Of the Amerasian blues?
When it's Christmas out in Ho Chi Minh City
Kiddie say poppa poppa poppa poppa
San take me home
See me got photo photo
Photograph of you
Mamma Mamma Mamma-san
Of you and Mamma Mamma Mamma-san
Lemme tell ya 'bout your blood bamboo kid.
It ain't Coca-Cola it's rice.

Straight to hell
Oh Poppa-san
Please take me home
Oh Poppa-san
Everybody they wanna go home
So Mamma-san says

(Here is where you simply repeat th intro)

You wanna play mindcrazed banjo
On the druggy+drag ragtime U.S.A.?
In Parkland International
Hah! Junkiedom U.S.A.
Where procaine proves the purest rock man groove
and rat poison
The volatile Molatov says-

Go straight to hell

Can you really cough it up loud and strong
The immigrants
They wanna sing all night long
It could be anywhere
Most likely could be any frontier
Any hemisphere
No man's land and there ain't no asylum here
King Solomon he never lived round here

Go straight to hell boys

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
Pete Palmer
ppalmer@cray.com
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

Go, little record go!  - Pixies


The Clash albums
1994 Super Black Market Clash
1982 Combat Rock
1980 Black Market Clash
1980 Sandinista!
1979 The Clash
1979 London Calling
1978 Give 'em Enough Rope
Combat Rock tabs
01Know Your Rights tabbass tab
03Should I Stay or Should I Go tabbass tab
04Rock the Casbah tabbass tab
05Red Angel Dragnet tabbass tab
06Straight to Hell tabbass tab
07Overpowered by Funk tabbass tab
08Atom Tan tabbass tab
10Ghetto Defendant tabbass tab
11Inoculated City tabbass tab

 

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